Patrick Kelley

Patrick is a Customer Success Engineering Manager and helps to provide customers with support services, troubleshooting, and defect resolution. Patrick also does some side work with SentryOne’s Professional Services team, who provide training and consulting. Patrick’s blog focus is on helping SQL Sentry users get the most out of our products. His hope is to ensure our users are as knowledgeable and comfortable as possible with SQL Sentry products, so they have as much ammo as possible to solve real world SQL Server problems.

Articles by Patrick Kelley

Guides from a SQL Sentry engineer on how Advisory Conditions can be used to alert on just about any counter or quarriable data to meet your alerting needs.
March 10, 2022 | Patrick Kelley | Advisory Conditions 0
Patrick Kelley walks through how to mine your SQL Sentry alerts to minimize alert noise.
February 12, 2021 | Patrick Kelley | Alerting, SQL Sentry 0
Patrick Kelley walks through how to tweak the settings related to the highlighting in SQL Sentry’s Navigator pane.
Patrick Kelley walks through how to use the Execute SQL action to customize the way data is presented in a SQL Sentry alert.
November 19, 2020 | Patrick Kelley | Alerting, SQL Sentry 0
Patrick Kelley shows how to data mine the SentryOne database for an aggregate view of Top SQL events by job and/or job step.
In Part 3 of his Alert Tuning Tips & Tricks blog series, Patrick Kelley shares the general process for tuning Advisory Conditions.
Patrick Kelley covers common use cases and tips he typically shares with customers during alert tuning sessions for SQL Server.
February 5, 2020 | Patrick Kelley | Alerting, Tips and Tricks 0
Find out how to customize SentryOne alerts to notify you of only meaningful, actionable events and states within your SQL Server database environment.
August 13, 2019 | Patrick Kelley | Tips and Tricks 0
Learn how to create meaningful Event Calendar views in SentryOne to better understand what events are taking place in your SQL Server environment.
July 10, 2019 | Patrick Kelley | Tips and Tricks 0
Learn how to utilize the SentryOne Performance Analysis Dashboard to view key metrics in real-time or historically and then easily drill down into what could be causing observed resource utilization.
June 7, 2019 | Patrick Kelley | Tips and Tricks 0
The Top SQL tab in the SentryOne Monitoring Platform has many different ways to view collected queries and search for executions. Find out how to navigate Top SQL.
April 22, 2019 | Patrick Kelley | Tips and Tricks 0
Patrick Kelley marks his debut on the SQL Sentry team blog with a deep dive into an often-overlooked feature, Runtime Statistics.

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